The use of well-chosen nonsense words makes possible the testing of many fundamental hypotheses in the field of language learning.
The use of well-chosen nonsense words makes possible the testing of many easy hypotheses in the field of language learning.
The hard part of the exercise, says Fish, is asking the students to explain how they decided which word "would or would not go into the slot formerly occupied by the nonsense word."
There will be a moment when I say to myself, "a 20-year-old billionaire has made up a nonsense word and I'm supposed to memorize it?"